This year’s March for Life, on May 13th, attracted approximately 12,500 participants from across Ontario and around the country. That’s an increase of about 500 people from last year. It was a beautiful day as families and young people converged on…

Throughout the course of human history, a civilization’s foundation has largely been built on its mythology, which is sometimes described as a set of stories and beliefs that characterizes a particular culture.  In many respects, the mythology of a culture is…

The twentieth century has been a brutal century. It is the only century which has had the dubious honour of exterminating the lives of hundreds of millions of human beings because of ideology. Much of the blame for this brutality…

At the close of their 2008 Plenary Assembly which met in Cornwall, 22-26 September, the Bishops of Canada issued a pastoral letter, titled “Liberating Potential”, which invites all the faithful “to discover or rediscover,” the message of the Encyclical Humanae…

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to witness directly to two women who were about to undergo abortions. Both occasions were at my place of employment and occurred within months of each other.
The first time I heard that…

December 28, 2007
FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS
Archbishop Luigi Ventura,Apostolic Nuncio to Canada724 Manor AvenueOttawa, ON KIM OE3
Your Grace,
For the past five years, I have been involved as a Catholic activist in the Ottawa area. In this…

Modern Catholic apologetics is often associated with historical questions or scriptural exegesis. Theological questions such as justification, the role of the Bible in the Christian Church, and the nature of Church authority, for instance, remain very common and popular topics…

Spending Power to Spare
Even real estate is not immune. “When real estate companies realized that the gay consumer had disposable income, that was when things started to change,” said Adam Thompson, managing broker at Rainbow Realty Corporation in Elmhurst,…

Not Just Crying “Wolf!”
There are also atheistic governments which oppress and persecute the Catholic Church for her teachings on sexual morality. In the past, these governments were primarily communist or fascist in ideology. Today, sadly, most western governments purporting…

Inviting All, Stumbling None
Third, the Declaration's opponents say that the Church is implicitly approving other religious professions by allowing their followers the civil right to publicly profess their faith. Yet, the fallacy in this reasoning rests in a fundamental…